As somebody who believes within the ideally suited of the trim, tidy PC inside, I do applaud the intent behind MSI’s Mission Zero X. Presently on present at CES 2025, it’s a prototype desktop construct that makes use of intelligent geometry and an unconventional motherboard I/O format to cover virtually each single wire within the joint, for a clear design that is housed in your viewing pleasure inside a four-sided glass chamber. It’s the closest PCs have come to the easy Victorian pleasures of a pleasant terrarium, and actually, good on it.
The issue is that if Mission Zero X’s parts ever truly go on sale, there turns into a non-zero p.c probability that I’ll come into possession of that see-through case. And there’s a 100 p.c probability I’ll spoil it.
I can’t keep in mind if I’ve ever confessed this earlier than, however I completely fucking suck at cable administration. Simply, abysmal. I can’t get them straight. I can’t get them bending the place I would like them. I can’t work out what to do with the slack besides stuff it beneath the PSU shroud like a bundle of previous Christmas lights that simply barely match again of their field. I virtually thought of begging Liam (RPS in peace) to not shoot that video of me bumbling via the method as a result of I knew it could out me as some type of {hardware} fraud, a Frank Abagnale with zipties. Bear in mind, it’s not imposter syndrome in the event you’re genuinely an imposter.
Level being, it doesn’t matter what MSI have carried out with the Mission Zero X case, even when they’ve gone to such ginnard-concealing lengths that it’s in some way bought the GPU outputs mentioning of the aspect. If I attempt to construct a PC with this, it will likely be stuffed with stray cables, and its complete goal might be undermined. I don’t understand how. However I’ll discover a method.
Nonetheless, for much less poor PC builders, this might make for fairly the assertion piece. Supplied, anyway, that the still-traditional mix of glass and metallic stays inside the boundaries of Your Kinda Factor. Opinions on chassis designs can after all fluctuate, even within the comparatively tiny pattern dimension of the present RPS workforce: per a gathering this morning the place I introduced up the Mission Zero X, it seems Graham desires to see as little of his PC’s insides as potential, Edwin dislikes something painted black or with lights, and Nic needs his was made out of wooden. Perhaps not the case for us lot, then.
